Journalist Quotes

Ernest Hemingway

George Orwell

Heinrich Heine

Jack London

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Daniel Defoe

Emma Goldman

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

Richard Harding Davis

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

William S. Paley

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

Henry Morton Stanley

Wounds which do extensive bone and nerve damage are not good for writers, nor anybody else.

Ernest Hemingway

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger we face today.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.

Gerald W. Johnson

Washington, D. C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

The country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

For fascists, just as for capitalists, wealth must be concentrated in fewer hands, and money may circulate across borders without constraint while ordinary people may not.

Gilbert Mercier

The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.